Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B.,was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 November 1897
CityNew York City, NY
faults bears enough
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
brother believe mean
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
ideas foundation liturgy
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
god children believe
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
fear order enough
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
sacrifice way worship
Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
writing talking important
The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
fall way bottom
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
order trying slavery
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
thank-god problem mediocre
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
men adrift action
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
finals final-words
The final word is love.
spiritual facts life-is
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
pain believe struggle
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.